Lot Essay
The coat-of-arms are for the Tower family, of Huntsmore Park, Buckinghamshire, and of Weald Hall in Essex.
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18TH CENTURY
Details
A PAIR OF CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE ARMORIAL DISHES
18TH CENTURY
Decorated in bright enamels and gilt to the centre with the coat-of-arms of the Tower family, encircled within a spear-head border, the cavetto with scrolls and gourds in reserve on a dense pink geometric ground, the flattened rim with peonies and lotus flower heads and the family's griffin crest Love and Read, black-painted Ford Inv. No. CC- 21- a and CC- 21 - b to underside of base
12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm.) diameter
18TH CENTURY
Decorated in bright enamels and gilt to the centre with the coat-of-arms of the Tower family, encircled within a spear-head border, the cavetto with scrolls and gourds in reserve on a dense pink geometric ground, the flattened rim with peonies and lotus flower heads and the family's griffin crest Love and Read, black-painted Ford Inv. No. CC- 21- a and CC- 21 - b to underside of base
12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Property from the Estate of Henry Ford II; sold Sotheby's,Turville Grange, 5 December 1988, lot 198.